How ESS is changing Eu's role in collective conflict management. : An assessment from Eurasia's Separatist States' conflicts in Moldova, Georgia,and Azerbaijan.
(2009) 5e ECPR General conference — Location: Potsdam, Germany (10.September.2009)
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- Over the past years, multilateralism has become a fundamental part of the EU's strategic vision on conflict management. The 2008 report on the implementation of the European Security Strategy (ESS) underlines the importance of co-operation between regional actors. This implies that the efficiency of the ESS also depends on the nature and the implementation of the co-operation between the EU and the other International Organisations (IOs). The purpose of this communication is thus twofold: At the theoritical level, this paper aims at analysing, by using network analysis, the interactions between international conflict managers (Eu, NATO, OSCE and CIS) with respect to the management of the Eurasia's Separatist States' conflicts in Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Interactions between international actors are usually understudied and only analyzed through very loose concepts such as complementarity, coordination, cooperation, and competition. This contribution will assess the very role of the EU in collective conflict management and argue that the framing of the ESS is modifying the implicite division of labor between conflict managers. Does the European Union occupy a « leading position » as advocated by the 2003 ESS and its 2008 review ? Does the EU's policy for co-operation with IOs define a strategic vision of what EU's role in conflict management should be ? How and to what extend has the co-operation with IOS been improved since 2003 ? These questions call for a reflexion on the structure of the interactions between the IOs involved in the management of internationalized conflicts. This contribution is also driven by methodological considerations: Using network analysis and graph theory, this paper aims at overcoming the weak concepts too often used to analyzed IOs' interactions. Following Hafner-Burton and Montgomery's perspective1, network analysis will be used to fill the methodological gap and to perform an original and systemactic study of IOs' interactions. By comparing the so-called frozen conflicts, this paper should permit to determine the structure of the networks and the positions of each actor, including the EU, for each conflict that is analyzed here.
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Pellon, G., & de Wilde d’Estmael, T. (2009). How ESS is changing Eu’s role in collective conflict management. : An assessment from Eurasia’s Separatist States’ conflicts in Moldova, Georgia,and Azerbaijan. 5e ECPR General conference, Potsdam, Germany. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/66652